Error: Trying to write past the end of the media

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Guest Walter

Guest Walter

I'm encountering a problem trying to write to a CD-R - the error is "Writing Error (3): Trying to write past the end of the media (1021) SENSE KEY: 5, ASC: 21, ASCQ: 0.

I know I'm not trying to write more than the disc (actually about 630Mb), and the media quality is good (Plextor discs - the best, and tried, and ruined several anyway). I've found it also fails during a test write so at least I'm not wasting any more CD-Rs.

Using XP Pro with an Advansys SCSI card and a Yamaha CRW8424S writer. This setup has been working for 2 or 3 years, but I got sick of XP's disc management and installed CDBXPP 6 weeks ago. This has been working fine until around a week ago.

I found an item on the 'net about these Sense keys and they pointed to a registry setting which disables AutoRun - but it was already set to 0, so false alarm.